How To Even…Start a Garden When You Don’t Have a Yard

Or know how to garden. Or are capable of maintaining interest in something after about three hours.

By Michael Gushue & CL Bledsoe

Gardens are a great way to pretend like we’re not all careening toward the grave with broken handbrakes. It’s like we’re making friends with the dirt that we will eventually become. Making homes for the worms that will eventually eat us. Also, flowers are pretty.

But gardens take space, and a lot of us don’t have enough, already, what with the hoarding and the indoor Quidditch field. So should we give up on ever having any joy in our barren lives and just watch Friends reruns, while the laugh track mocks us endlessly? I mean, sure, if that’s what you’re into. Or, you could kick that problem’s butt with a little outside the (flower) box thinking.

Container Gardens

The quick and slightly less dirty solution to not having space to plant a garden is to break your garden up into smaller spaces. If you’ve got a porch or balcony, use pots and/or hanging containers. Maybe you can hang a planter…